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188 NEOLITHIC POTTERY OF SOUTH RUSSIA
and South Russia. Professor von Stern's discoveries
at Petreny in Bessarabia, admirably illustrated as they
are in his coloured plates, show shapes and designs that
are beyond anything that we are accustomed to associate
with Neolithic culture. Sometimes the design is painted
in black or violet-brown on the hand-polished surface
of the clay ; more usually it is applied when the clay has
already been covered with a painted slip, yellow-white,
red, brown, or yellow. The design itself is sometimes
yellow, or light red, instead of black or brown. If we
may judge from the coloured plates, violet-brown on a
light reddish-brown is the dominant combination. The
design is generally monochrome, but in one variety
black and red are used together on the same vase.1
Petreny is not only remarkable for its elaborate spiral
designs. Its pottery differs from that of all the other
Central European sites 8 in the fact that it is decorated
with motives from the organic world. These are not
only fir cones,5 but figures of animals, such as a goat,4
a bull,1 and, quite commonly, a dog." In three cases
we have actually the whole or part of a human figure,7
and two more are represented in the neighbouring finds
of Mr. Chwoiko at Tripoljer, near Kief.8 The repre-
sentation of man cannot be said to be so successful as
1 Von Stern, pp. 61-2. At Dimini one vase has a design in
three colours, white, black-brown, and red (ibid, p. 83.)
2 Ibid. pp. 63-4. Sayce, A.C.I. 1907, p. 47, mentions that Dc
Morgan found animal figures on potter)' of the end of the Neo-
lithic Age at Susa, especially ostriches, as on prehistoric ware
of Egypt.
3 Ibid. Plates VIII. [, XI. 11, wrongly numbered in the text
p. 64-
* Ibid. Plate XI. 12a, text p. 65.
0 Ibid. Plate VIII. 3, wrongly numbered in the text p. 66.
0 Ibid. Plates IX. 5, 8, 9, XI. 12b, wrongly numbered in
the text p. 66.
7 Ibid. Plates EL 3, IX. 4, 6, text p. 64.
8 Ibid. p. 64.
and South Russia. Professor von Stern's discoveries
at Petreny in Bessarabia, admirably illustrated as they
are in his coloured plates, show shapes and designs that
are beyond anything that we are accustomed to associate
with Neolithic culture. Sometimes the design is painted
in black or violet-brown on the hand-polished surface
of the clay ; more usually it is applied when the clay has
already been covered with a painted slip, yellow-white,
red, brown, or yellow. The design itself is sometimes
yellow, or light red, instead of black or brown. If we
may judge from the coloured plates, violet-brown on a
light reddish-brown is the dominant combination. The
design is generally monochrome, but in one variety
black and red are used together on the same vase.1
Petreny is not only remarkable for its elaborate spiral
designs. Its pottery differs from that of all the other
Central European sites 8 in the fact that it is decorated
with motives from the organic world. These are not
only fir cones,5 but figures of animals, such as a goat,4
a bull,1 and, quite commonly, a dog." In three cases
we have actually the whole or part of a human figure,7
and two more are represented in the neighbouring finds
of Mr. Chwoiko at Tripoljer, near Kief.8 The repre-
sentation of man cannot be said to be so successful as
1 Von Stern, pp. 61-2. At Dimini one vase has a design in
three colours, white, black-brown, and red (ibid, p. 83.)
2 Ibid. pp. 63-4. Sayce, A.C.I. 1907, p. 47, mentions that Dc
Morgan found animal figures on potter)' of the end of the Neo-
lithic Age at Susa, especially ostriches, as on prehistoric ware
of Egypt.
3 Ibid. Plates VIII. [, XI. 11, wrongly numbered in the text
p. 64-
* Ibid. Plate XI. 12a, text p. 65.
0 Ibid. Plate VIII. 3, wrongly numbered in the text p. 66.
0 Ibid. Plates IX. 5, 8, 9, XI. 12b, wrongly numbered in
the text p. 66.
7 Ibid. Plates EL 3, IX. 4, 6, text p. 64.
8 Ibid. p. 64.